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Old 03-01-2012, 03:15 PM   #37
JD Gumby
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Originally Posted by Yapyap View Post
It's definitely something that would be useful to many other people though, and with ebooks, it would be such a simple thing to include... I mean, even the publishers don't provide the information, I'd assume that there would be a relatively simple way to do an automatic word count on the provided file (and perhaps round it up/down so that it won't look ridiculous, e.g. 142,900 or 143,000 words instead of 142,887 words).
It would be trivial to implement - but there is currently no incentive for publishers to give any indication as to whether you're buying a novel, novella, or short story for that $7.99 or whatever. :/
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